加工贸易对中国外贸和经济发展起到了巨大的推动作用。东莞是中国加工贸易发展的缩影，国际金融危机后，东莞加工贸易受到了很大的冲击。近年来，东莞抢抓机遇，积极促进加工贸易转型升级，取得了较好的成效，但仍存在缺乏核心技术和自主品牌、缺乏有效的资金支持、信息支持及人才支持等一系列突出问题。本文深入分析东莞加工贸易的发展历程，揭示转型升级的困境，总结东莞加工贸易转型升级经验，以期为中国加工贸易企业转型升级提供有益的借鉴。
The Processing Trade has improved the development of the economy of China greatly. Dongguan is an epitome of the development of Processing Trade in China in spite of the great shock from the international finance crisis. In recent years，Dongguan seized the opportunities，and has gained rather satisfactory achievements by carrying out the transformation and upgrading of processing trade positively. However there are still serious problems，such as the lack of core technology and self-owned brands，along with the insufficiency support of fund，information and talents. This article analyses the development history of the processing trade of Dongguan，explores the dilemma of its transformation and upgrading of the Processing Trade of Dongguan. This paper points out that the way-out to solve the dilemma is to open up emerging markets and to carry out the going out strategy，so as to provide the useful reference for the transformation and upgrading of the processing trade of China.
